We’re delighted to announce that Saint Etienne‘s Sarah Cracknell releases a solo album, Red Kite, on 15th June. The album was recorded with co-producers Carwyn Ellis (Colorama) and Seb Lewsley (Edwyn Collins/The Cribs) in a makeshift studio in the heart of Oxfordshire during the winter of 2014/2015. It includes vocal contributions from Nicky Wire and The Rails (James Walbourne, Kami Thompson).

Red Kite marks Sarah’s first solo release since 1997’s Lipslide and is accompanied by a new single, ‘Nothing Left To Talk About’, which is a duet with Nicky Wire from the Manic Street Preachers.

This album is also available as a Limited Edition 12″ LP

Track List:

1 On The Swings

2 Nothing Left To Talk About (ft. Nicky Wire)

3 In The Dark

4 Ragdoll

5 Underneath The Stars

6 Hearts Are For Breaking

7 Take The Silver (ft. The Rails)

8 The Mutineer

9 I Close My Eyes

10 It’s Never Too Late

11 I Am Not Your Enemy

12 Favourite Chair 

FIDELIO: L'Odyssée d'Alice will be released on 5th August in our theatres.

A film by Lucie BORLETEAU
WithAriane LABED ('The Lobster', 'Before Midnight'), Melvil POUPAUD ('Laurence Anyways') and Anders DANIELSEN LIE ('Oslo, 31. August')

 
Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman : she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction... In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love...

Though known as a touring and recording musician associated with Nine Inch Nails, Alessandro Cortini has really come into his own via his Forse trilogy, and his 2014 Hospital Productions debut, Sonno. For his Hospital follow-up, he maintains the grittiness and intimacy introduced on his debut, but expands upon it, offering a wider spectrum of emotion and depth. 

Like Sonno, Risveglio was written and recorded while on tour. The drive to create intimate works during late-night downtime reveal Cortini to be committed to personal vision beyond the call of duty. While Sonno was created using only a Roland 202 and delay, Risveglio adds a Roland TB303, synced to the 202.

In his own words, "The 303 can be such a haunting instrument used in a certain way, and I felt it completely fit the mood of the previous work I have done on the 202, especially when given a specific location in space....it’s such a living instrument." The addition of Roland TR606 gives one of the pieces a rhythmic pulse that separates it from the preceding synthscapes and renders Risveglio altogether a more dynamic affair than Sonno. 

With Risveglio, Cortini implores and emphasizes the imperfections and visceral textures of electronics vacant from so much contemporary solo synthesizer music. Furthermore Cortini carves out a similar space to what Kevin Drumm's Hospital releases have done for the worlds of Drone and Noise by finding the emotional and ultimately human voice within synthesis. 

Alessandro Cortini will be presenting both Sonno and Risveglio in a live audio-visual performance at this years upcoming Berlin Atonal festival taking place August 19th-23rd. 

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Rob Zombie is ready to expand beyond the horror genre. Zombie and Miranda Bailey have acquired the rights to Steve Stoliar’s memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House. Love & Mercy co-writer Oren Moverman will write the screenplay and Zombie is attached to direct. Cold Iron Pictures’ Miranda Bailey and Amanda Marshall are producing along with Zombie and Andy Gould.

The book tells the bizarre story of the last years in the life of Groucho Marx, told by a young Marx Brothers fan who spent those years as his personal secretary and archivist. In addition to getting to know his hero, the author found himself in the orbit of Groucho’s brothers Zeppo and Gummo, Mae West, George Burns, Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, S.J. Perelman, Steve Allen, and scores of other luminaries of stage, screen, TV and literature. The downside of this dream-come-true was getting close to his idol as the curtain was coming down, and dealing with Erin Fleming – the mercurial woman in charge of Groucho’s personal and professional life.

There have been proposed projects about the life of Groucho and his Marx Brothers, the most recent from Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the Big Eyes scribes who were going to direct a Marx Brothers movie but just could not get the budget down. This is a different way to tell the story and the choice of director is certainly unexpected.

Zombie, the multi-platinum recording artist-turned film director, made his mark directing small budget profitable genre films like House Of 1000 Corpses, two Halloween films, Lords Of Salem and the currently shooting 31, about five people kidnapped on the eve of Halloween and placed in a lethal funhouse called Murder World. But I’ve seen how meticulous Zombie is in the preparation and design of these fright films, and he could well make the kind of transition that Saw helmer James Wan and others have made from genre to more mainstream fare. He is separately writing to direct Broad Street Bullies, a film about the Philadelphia Flyers hockey teams that brawled their way to prominence. So while he would not be the obvious choice to make a touching film about the last days of iconic Groucho Marx based on his resume, turns out Zombie is a huge fan of the comic and is steeped in Marx Brothers lore.

“I have been a huge Groucho Marx fan ever since I was a child and have read countless book on the comic legend, but after reading the book Raised Eyebrows, a totally new perspective on Groucho’s life emerged,” says Zombie. “I immediately saw this project as Groucho’s Sunset Boulevard and knew I had to bring it to the big screen. It is a sad, funny and very dark tale of a one of Hollywood’s greatest stars final years.”

Bailey’s Cold Iron Pictures produced the upcoming Sony Pictures Classics film The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, which Marielle Heller directed with Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgard, Christopher Meloni and Bel Powley starring. Bailey twice worked with Morverman on Time Out Of Mind and Oppenheimer Strategies, both of which star Richard Gere.

“Steve’s story detailing his experience with one of the most iconic comedians of our time was so poignantly crafted, and such a compelling read, that I immediately knew it was a project I wanted to be involved with. Rob is the perfect visionary to direct Oren’s script to the screen.” ICM Partners is handling sales for the film. Moverman is repped by WME and Zombie is repped by UTA, Spectacle Entertainment and attorney David Fox.

Source: Deadline.com

Editors follow ‘No Harm’, their first new music in two years which “leaked” via a hidden track on a Play It Again Sam label sampler, with the release of a further new song, ‘Marching Orders’ today.

Coming in at just short of 8 minutes ‘Marching Orders’, in all its unexpurgated glory, was recorded by the band in the Western Highlands of Scotland in early 2015 and mixed by Alan Moulder.

In a similar spirit to the ‘release’ of ‘No Harm’ (discovered by and posted to Youtube by an excited fan) Editors will continue their long standing relationship with Oxfam by gifting 300 hand stamped 12” test pressings of Marching Orders. These will be randomly placed and sold in selected Oxfam stores in the UK, Germany and Belgium. The initiative continues a long standing relationship between the charity and the band as Tom Smith explains

"We've been supporters of Oxfam's amazing, vital work for many years, from supporting their Oxfam unwrapped campaign back in Xmas 2007, performing at Oxjam gigs and also hosting Oxfam campaigners on our tours to help raise funds and spread the word about the charity with our fans."

Editors have announced an extensive UK and European tour from October. All dates are as follows

October

Fri 9, UK, Belfast, Limelight

Sat 10, Ireland, Dublin, Olympia Theatre

Mon 12, UK, Bristol, Colston Hall

Tue 13, UK, London, Hammersmith Apollo

Thu 15, UK, Portsmouth, Pyramid Centre

Fri 16, UK, Birmingham, O2 Academy

Sat 17, UK, Leeds, O2 Academy

Sun 18, UK, Glasgow, O2 ABC

Tue 20, UK, Newcastle, O2 Academy

Wed 21, UK, Cambridge, Junction SOLD OUT

Thu 22, UK, Manchester, Manchester Academy SOLD OUT

Wed 28, France, Paris, Le Trianon

Thu 29, France, Lille, Splendide SOLD OUT

Sat 31, Belgium, Brussels, Palais 12

November

Sun 1, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Den Atelier

Mon 2, Germany, Cologne, Koln Palladium

Wed 4, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall SOLD OUT

Thu 5, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall SOLD OUT

Fri 6, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall

Sun 8, Germany, Hamburg, Mehr Theater

Mon 9, Germany, Berlin, Columbiahalle

Tue 10, Germany, Offenbach, Stadthalle

Thu 12, Germany, Munich, Tonhalle

Fri 13, France, Strasbourg, Laiterie

Sun 15, France, Lyon, Radiant

Mon 16, Spain, Barcelona, Razzmatazz

Tue 17, Spain, Madrid, La Riviera

Fri, 27 Switzerland, Lausanne, Les Docks

Sat 28, Italy, Bologna, Paladozza

Sun 29, Austria, Vienna, Gasometer

December

Tue 1, Slovenia, Ljubljana, Kino Siska

Wed 2, Croatia, Zagreb, Culture Factory

Fri 4, Greece, Athens, Gazi Music Hall

Sat 5, Greece, Thessaloniki, Principal Club Theatre

Sun 6, Turkey, Istanbul, Volkswagen Arena

Tue 8, Hungary, Budapest, Barba Negra

Wed 9, Czech Republic, Prague, Roxy

Thu 10, Poland, Warsaw, Progresja Music Zone

Fri 11, Poland, Poznan, MTP2

Sun 13, Switzerland, Zurich, X-tra

Mon 14, France, Marseille, Espace Julien

Tue 15, France, Bordeaux, Le Rocher De Palme